Suzanne Strempek Shea (born in western Massachusetts, USA), is the author of literary fiction, biographies and

memoirs A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiog ...

. She was the winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction. Shea lives in Bondsville, Massachusetts, with her husband, long-time '' Springfield Republican'' reporter and then columnist Tom Shea. She is the author of five novels:'' Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, Around Again, and Becoming Finola, ''published by Washington Square Press. She has also written three memoirs, ''Songs From a Lead-lined Room: Notes - High and Low - From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation; Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama and Other Page-Turning Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore; and Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith'', all published by Beacon Press. Her freelance journalism and fiction has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Yankee, ''

The Bark ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in En ...

'', '' Golf World'', '' The Boston Globe'', '' The Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''

Organic Style Organic may refer to: * Organic, of or relating to an organism, a living entity * Organic, of or relating to an anatomical organ Chemistry * Organic matter, matter that has come from a once-living organism, is capable of decay or is the product o ...

'', and '' ESPN the Magazine''. She was a regular contributor to ''

Obit Obit may refer to: *Obituary, a news article reporting a person's death, and typically including his/her biography. * ''Obit'' (film), a 2016 documentary about the obituary writers at The New York Times *''Obiit'', a medieval mass of remembrance, ...

'' magazine. Her essay "Crafty Critters" appears in the anthology ''Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, ''published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2013.

Selected works

Novels * ''Selling the Lite of Heaven'' * ''Hoopi Shoopi Donna'' * ''Lily of the Valley'' * ''Around Again'' Memoirs * ''Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes—High and Low—From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation'' * ''Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore'' Other Work * "Crafty Critters" in ''Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting.''

References

External links

Suzanne Strempek Shea's website

Books by Suzanne Strempek Shea
at amazon.com *
Interview with Suzanne Strempek Shea by J. A. Kaszuba Locke
* Eric Goldscheider

January 20, 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Shea, Suzanne Strempek Writers from Massachusetts Living people Year of birth missing (living people)